Hi squid-users, I'm an experienced web developer who is using Squid for the first time. For internal testing, we need a stable cache of a certain list of sites (which we do not own) that we use in our test. I know Squid isn't built to do this, but I thought for sure it would be possible to configure it to cache literally all HTTP responses and then use those for all requests. Here is my very simple Squid 3.1 config that is intended to do that: =================================================== offline_mode on refresh_pattern . 525600 100% 525600 override-expire override-lastmod ignore-reload ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store ignore-must-revalidate ignore-private ignore-auth vary_ignore_expire on minimum_expiry_time 99 years minimum_object_size 0 bytes maximum_object_size 1024 MB cache_effective_user _myusername http_access allow all coredump_dir /usr/local/squid/var/logs strip_query_terms off url_rewrite_access allow all url_rewrite_program /usr/local/squid/similar_url_rewrite.rb url_rewrite_concurrency 10 url_rewrite_children 10 cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/caches/gm 5000 16 256 http_port 8082 pid_filename /usr/local/squid/var/run/gm.pid access_log /usr/local/squid/var/logs/access-gm.log cache_log /usr/local/squid/var/logs/cache-gm.log =================================================== As you can see, I am intelligently rewriting URLs to always match URLs that I know should be in the cache because I've hit them before. I find that my hit rate is still only about 56%, and that is mostly 304 IMS hits. I have been unable to find sufficient documentation or debug logging to explain why Squid would still not cache some requests. I want very much to use Squid if possible, since it is a stable, well-known, production server application. Any tips? Is this not doable with Squid? Thanks in advance!
